On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:58:02AM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Remove ##sys#expand-home-path as shell expansion has no place in a filesystem
> API.
I've moved the ~ behaviour to a new procedure in "utils" called "ep" and
updated the NEWS file and docs.
The signed off patch is attached.
I'm
Peter Bex scripsit:
> BTW: This behaviour isn't really compatible with the shell's, since it
> disallows strings formatted like ~username from being expanded to that
> user's homedir.
I don't think that behavior is worth emulating. For one thing, machines
are far less likely to be multi-user now
Hi,
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:44:24 +0100 Peter Bex wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:58:02AM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
>> Remove ##sys#expand-home-path as shell expansion has no place in a filesystem
>> API.
>
> I've moved the ~ behaviour to a new procedure in "utils" called "ep" and
> upda
Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:
> b. Drop ##sys#expand-home-path. Do not implicitly expand ~ and
>environment variables in pathnames. Provide a procedure to expand ~
>in pathnames. That's what this patch implements.
I suggest:
b2. Keep ##sys#expand-home-path, but make it the identi
Hi John,
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:01:45 -0400 John Cowan wrote:
> Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:
>
>> b. Drop ##sys#expand-home-path. Do not implicitly expand ~ and
>>environment variables in pathnames. Provide a procedure to expand ~
>>in pathnames. That's what this patch implements.
Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:
> IMO, in this case we should just remove ##sys#expand-home-path, since it
> is an internal procedure. Users should not rely on stability of the
> internal API. By keeping ##sys#expand-home-path as an identity
> procedure, we'd be just polluting the core and addi
The following eggs in SVN use ##sys#expand-home-path, since this functionality
is useful but was never exported as an official API:
openssl
osxattr
posix-extras
sql-de-lite
sqlite3
vfs
To be fair, three of those are mine.
Jim
On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi John
